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In relation to '''homosexuality and AIDS''', the original spread of [[AIDS]] is generally attributed to the promiscuity of homosexual men. Originally the syndrome was called the "gay disease" because the overwhelming majority of patients were [[Homosexuality|homosexual]] men.

In relation to '''homosexuality and AIDS''', the original spread of [[AIDS]] is generally attributed to the promiscuity of homosexual men. Originally the syndrome was called the "gay disease" because the overwhelming majority of patients were [[Homosexuality|homosexual]] men.

In August of 2009, LifeSiteNews reported: "An official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the CDC's estimate Monday that in the United States AIDS is fifty times more prevalent among men who have sex with men ('MSM') than the rest of the population."<ref>http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2009/aug/09082609</ref> Of newly diagnosed [[HIV]] infections in the [[United States]] during the year 2003, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimated that about 63% were among men who were infected through sexual contact with other men.<ref>[http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5424a2.htm HIV Prevalence, Unrecognized Infection, and HIV Testing Among Men Who Have Sex with Men --- Five U.S. Cities, June 2004--April 2005]</ref>

A September 2010 report of the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]] (CDC) reported : "Gay, [[bisexual]], and other men who have sex with men (MSM) represent approximately 2% of the US population, yet are the population most severely affected by [[HIV]] and are the only risk group in which new HIV infections have been increasing steadily since the early 1990s."<ref>http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/msm/index.htm</ref> In 2006, MSM accounted for more than half (53%) of all new HIV infections in the United States, In August of 2009, LifeSiteNews reported: "An official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced the CDC's estimate Monday that in the United States AIDS is fifty times more prevalent among men who have sex with men ('MSM') than the rest of the population."<ref>http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/archive/ldn/2009/aug/09082609</ref> Of newly diagnosed [[HIV]] infections in the [[United States]] during the year 2003, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimated that about 63% were among men who were infected through sexual contact with other men.<ref>[http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5424a2.htm HIV Prevalence, Unrecognized Infection, and HIV Testing Among Men Who Have Sex with Men --- Five U.S. Cities, June 2004--April 2005]</ref>

    

    

As of 1998, fifty-four percent of all AIDS cases in the United States were homosexual men, and the CDC stated that nearly ninety percent of these men acquired HIV through sexual activity with other men.<ref>[http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/homosexuality/ho0088.html Health risks of the homosexual lifestyle]</ref>

As of 1998, fifty-four percent of all AIDS cases in the United States were homosexual men, and the CDC stated that nearly ninety percent of these men acquired HIV through sexual activity with other men.<ref>[http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/homosexuality/ho0088.html Health risks of the homosexual lifestyle]</ref>